ragnarokx
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OK. I'll stop trying to help. Carry on.
Thank you for your input Jerry - it's always appreciated.
OK. I'll stop trying to help. Carry on.
Not in all cases and surely not at the same speed but what can I do. I already got the phone. I just hope palm can produce a decent phone then I will switch back. Calendar and email on android is just awful and they are the most important things to me.
OK. I'll stop trying to help. Carry on.
So Launcher Pro gets things "closer" to WebOS, eh? And K9 Mail is better than stock mail? Is it closer to WebOS also?
Anything else that will get it closer to WebOS? I'd love to have WebOS running on this thing, but will settle for just getting it closer in certain situations....
Really android is a pretty decent OS. It just takes some getting used to. It's poor way of multitasking (only having access to the last 6 apps used irregardless if they are still open or closed) is one of it's biggest short comings. Itching thumb seems to help a bit.
he, now you're being disingenuous- with webos, you'd probably get a too many cards error by the time you get to 6 open apps. ;D (and froyo shows the 8 most recent, fwiw)
getting it when you are trying to open your FIRST card was....well, I nearly threw the phone a few times.....
However, I think that was more a problem caused by the hardware than the OS.
6-8 is plenty for me, IF they would be smoother/faster to switch between, and put me in the same place/state I was in when I left.
he, now you're being disingenuous- with webos, you'd probably get a too many cards error by the time you get to 6 open apps. ;D (and froyo shows the 8 most recent, fwiw)
The whole point of Android is that you don't have to do your multitasking by hand, moving cards around. Just open a past app and it has saved state right where you left off.
I actually prefer Androids task management over WebOs.. With Android I know for sure when I have quit a task. No question of it possibly running in the background.those cards are nice and elegant but "fluff" imho
Then why am I always having to go to manage applications to force close apps I don't want running, which keep launching themselves in the background? Facebook, Gmail, Amazon Appstore, and several others will not stay shut down until *I* command them to start or do something that needs them.
When the user launches an app that needs one or more other apps to be launched, they should launch *and* those apps should quit when the app that called them is quit. But they mostly keep on running needlessly.
Then there's the problem with Android sneakily closing whatever apps it figures aren't being used. It's especially annoying when I have a page open in a browser, intending to get back to it later but find Android has closed the browser. Why? I don't know why, it's just shut down and what I was last looking at is lost. It does the same thing with Kindle Reader. Fortunately that apps remembers where it was.
Dolphin HD and Kindle Reader are two apps I'd like to be able to protect from Android being able to close automatically.
Not meant as an insult, but the problem may be, that you don't understand how Android works. For example....
Android apps share resources, that's why the app size is fairly small. Some apps have to sit in the que for faster load. While the apps sit in the que, they use a little RAM, but no CPU cycles until the app is opened.
On the browser, if using TouchWiz, edit the dock bar and place Dolphin HD in the dock bar. If you hit the Home button to launch another app, hit the Home button after using another app, the hit Dolphin HD in the dock bar,the last page you were looking at will reopen.
If you are using a third party launcher, edit the dock bar in that launcher. If you are using TouchWiz and need more dock bars, get a third party launcher. Some launchers will have three or more dock bars.....
The whole point of Android is that you don't have to do your multitasking by hand, moving cards around. Just open a past app and it has saved state right where you left off.
Still I added a link to it in the Palm webOS Homebrewer's Guide to Android for others coming over from webOS. But I think Visual Task Switcher is smoother.